To which I would say, if this were not literally a potential issue of life and death, “HAHAHAHA.”

Really? Keeping the ski lifts running is a “vital public service” during a national and state health emergency?

SkiCo is of course in business to make money, notwithstanding its self-serving protestations to the contrary, and I suppose they stood to make even more money by staying open when archrival Vail was closed. But is this the best rationale they can offer?

How noble. I guess we’re supposed to congratulate SkiCo for complying, reluctantly, with an emergency order from the governor designed to protect the public from a declared pandemic.

At SkiCo and the Aspen Times, they say they’re for people before profits. But apparently not when there’s a public health emergency with threats to the public that might lessen those profits. It’s so much easierto, for example, ban plastic straws, as SkiCo did in its restaurants last year with considerable congratulation from itself and from the Aspen Times.

It’s in times of crisis that a person’strue character is revealed. Judge for yourself the character of SkiCo and the Aspen Times.”